WELLS, Guilford Wiley, a Representative from Mississippi;
born in Conesus Center, Livingston County, N.Y., February 14, 1840;
attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and College, Lima, N.Y.;
enlisted in the Union Army as a private in the Twenty-seventh New York Infantry May 21, 1861;
promoted to second lieutenant in the One Hundred and Thirtieth New York Infantry in 1862 and subsequently to first lieutenant and captain in the Nineteenth New York Cavalry;
mustered out February 10, 1865, as a lieutenant colonel;
was graduated from the law department of Columbian College (later George Washington University);
Washington, D.C., in 1867;
was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Holly Springs, Miss.;
United States attorney for the northern district of Mississippi 1870-1875;
elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877);
declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876;
consul general at Shanghai, China, from June 23, 1877, to May 26, 1879;
settled in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1879 and resumed the practice of law;
died in Santa Monica, Calif., March 21, 1909;
interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.